A hearing will take place in the autumn to decide whether a private prosecution will be brought against the Glasgow bin lorry driver who lost control and killed six people in the city centre two years ago.

Harry Clarke blacked out behind the wheel of the bin lorry in December 2014 in Queen Street and killed six people, including Jack and Lorraine Sweeney and their granddaughter Erin McQuade.

Bin Lorry driver Harry Clarke

It is their family who is pursing a private prosecution after the Crown Office decided not to procede.

Stephenie Tait, Jacqueline Morton and Gillian Ewing also died in the crash.

Scotland's top judge said that a two-day hearing to decide whether they will be able to procede with a private prosecution should take place in October or November, although the exact date not has not yet been arranged.

Erin McQuade funeral January 2015

The judges have also been asked to consider an application to prosecute William Payne, which has been lodged by the families of students Mhairi Convy and Laura Stewart, who were knocked down and killed in Glasgow in 2010.

The Lord Justice General Lord Carloway, with Lady Smith and Lord Brodie, sat on Thursday to hear a second procedural hearing on the Bill for Criminal Letters regarding the cases.

Details of that hearing cannot be reported for legal reasons but the Lord Justice General told the court he wanted the case to progress as soon as practically possible.